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NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson (left) together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus wave towards the group whereas heading to the launchpad on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Three crew members are protected after their scheduled launch to the Worldwide Area Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was robotically aborted Thursday morning, in keeping with a dwell NASA broadcast.
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus had been anticipated to carry off aboard a Roscosmos Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at 9:21 a.m. ET and arrive on the house station about three hours later.
However 20 seconds earlier than the launch was to happen, an automated abort was triggered after the second of two umbilicals, or service towers, up in opposition to the aspect of the Soyuz rocket, did not provoke an engine sequence begin.
“We have no idea the rationale why at this level,” in keeping with a NASA broadcast of the launch.
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The Soyuz rocket is seen shortly after rolling out to the launchpad on March 18 on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The crew was knowledgeable by mission management shortly after the problem that they’d not be launching to the house station. All fueling operations had been ceased and security instructions had been enacted to stop any potential hazard to the crew.
The crew’s subsequent alternative to launch is Saturday morning, however that will depend on whether or not engineers can decide the reason for the automated abort and if it may be resolved in time.
At the moment, it’s unknown whether or not the abort will affect the launch of a separate cargo resupply mission, anticipated to launch at 4:55 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral in Florida and dock on the house station Saturday morning. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will carry new science investigations, meals, provides and tools on that flight.
Simply earlier than the printed of the tried Soyuz launch ended, servicing towers had been being raised subsequent to the rocket and crew capsule to allow engineers to extract the crew and return them to their quarters.
When the launch is rescheduled, Dyson, Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will journey be a part of NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin, who’re all already aboard the house station.